METRO MANILA – The House of Representatives bill granting ABS-CBN a temporary franchise would require the media titan to cough up 10% of its paid advertisements to the government. In Section 4 on the Responsibility to the Public of House Bill (HB) No. 6732, which was signed by House Speaker Alan Peter Cayetano and seven other members of the House …

The Department of Health requested a supplementary budget of P3 billion from the House of Representatives to combat the spread of coronavirus disease by 2019 or COVID-19 in the country. At the hearing of the House Committee on Appropriations, Health Secretary Francisco Duque said that P2.35 billion of the budget would be used to buy personal protective equipment — headgear, …